We’ve published various “best-X-of-2012” lists, so we thought we’d add a list of things that really weren’t the best of anything at all.

iPhone 5

Apple created a category-defining device, and now it does a brisk business in selling ever-more-perfect refinements of it. There’s nothing wrong with that; would you ask Japan’s greatest swordsmith to make guns? But for early adopters looking for a little excitement, the temptation to cheat on iPhone with the ever-more-exotic freakshow that is Android grows with every new iPhone release.